Use and productivity of contemporary, multidisciplinary Big Science

Research Evaluation

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 486-495

  Hallonsten, Olof ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Big Science; governance of science; Natural sciences; performance evaluation; Productivity; Quality assessment

Indexed keywords

EID: 85016215785     PISSN: 09582029     EISSN: 14715449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/reseval/rvw019     Document Type: Article

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